Pad-holding clip.



PATENTED JAN. s, 1907 K. JELALIAN.

PAD HOLDING CLIP.

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\KARNIG JELALlAN, OF NEW roRK, N: Y. I PAD-HOLDING oLlP.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, KARNIG' JELALIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at 402 West Nineteenth street, in the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pad-Holding Clips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a pad-holdi clip adapted to clutchand hold either a pa or a number of loose sheets of paper, bills, checks, or similar stationery and to readily permit of the detaching of one or more of the sheets at will. These and other details and objects of my invention are more fully described in the following specification and pointed out in'the appended claim.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and for a part thereof like numbers of reference 0 aracters refer to similar parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is a PGI'SPGQUVGAVIGIW of the del vice, showing it provided with "a pad of a number of sheets of paper. 2 1s a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a slde view with the clamping-jaw loosened and the pad of papers removed.

The chp is made of sheet metal, preferably is composed of two jaws 4 and 5, the former being designed to engage the upper surface of the sheets of paper, and has a cutting edge 6, which permits of the hasty removal of a sheet by tearing the paper along the said cutting edge. This jaw 4 may be strengthened by means of the ribs 7, which 've it suflicient stability to perform its gripping function. The lower jaw 5 has flanges 8 along its rear edge and may have riveted to it a metal or pasteboard sheet 9 to support the pad of paper held by the clip. The two jaws- 4 and 5 are united by a spring-section 10, ha on each side an upright lug 11,

, with a pe oration near the upper end of each.

These perforations are adapted to receive the trunnions 12 of a cam 13, made of sheet metal in cylindrical form, having lateral projections 12, said cam operating upon that portion of' the spring-section which is connected with the upper jaw 4.

When the cam is turned-into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and the point of con- Speciflcation of Letters Patent. 7 Application filed August 2. 190a. sum my 27am.

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12, the .jaw 4 is clamped an the cam is locked,hold' the sheets of pa er14firmlyon the base-boar 'or' sheet 9 an ready for use; but when the handle 15 of the cam'is'thrown back to the position shown in Fig. 3 thejaw 4 is released and the spring 10 is freed ,-the jaw consequently disenga the sheets of P8,- per or being removed om the lower jaw 5 a sufficient distance to su ply thefclip with. a e outer amid the cam forms handle 15 and is perforated at 16 to permit of its being-h on a hook or nail. The flanges 8 serve to ormly position the sheets in the lower jaw. The base-board 9 tact with the spring is past the ivotal points may be of a size identical with the sheets or blanks to be used.

A- clip of the above description may be cheaply constructed of but two .pieces of metal, the jaws stamped from sheet-steel and the cam from heavier and softer material. The simplicity of construction permits of the ready assemblage of its arts and its easy operation' by a person 6 few mechanical attainments.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a clip for holding sheets of paper, the combination with a base-board supporting the sheets, of 'a jaw provided with perforations and having a guide-flange along its inmi edge rest' against the extremity of said board, means in said perforations securing said board to said 'aw, an upper movable jaw having a tearing e e, said aws being formed of one piece of resilient metal and of approximately U shape, a cylindrical jaw-operating cam having lateral projections thereon, an bearings for said projections in a bent-up portion of the lower jaw extending above the upper jaw. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 31st day of July, 1905.

KARNIG JELALI AN. 

